Country Info
- Paramaribo
- Capital
- Suriname Guilder (SRG)
- Currency
- 433,998
- Population
- SR
- Country Code
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Suriname
Travel Blogs from Suriname
SURINAME ETHNICITY
Greetings: The ethnicity here in Suriname is interesting. There are 5 ethnic groups, Creole, Hindustani, Javanese, Amerindian and Moroon. In Parimarabo the most vi sable are Creole and Hindustani. While ethnicity seems very important to them, as they ...
Stop #42
... as types of food, belief in Christianity, and even just playing at the local swimming pool. The differences between Georgia and Suriname were what really caught our attention. For one thing, we learned that there are poisonous frogs that live in the ...
Blog & Photos
monday 11th january 10.00 Taboo time 07 53.34 N 54 03.09 W pleased to report that the combination of a few hours motor sailing and a sailing tack northwards provided us with a good position to re-commence our south easterly progress at a safe distance ...
Sunday sailing!
Sunday 10th January 2010 18.30 08 14.083 N 055 23.176 W well it had to end...we had been on one port tack since hoisting sail in Antigua until this afternoon almost 950 miles on one tack is certainly a record for Taboo another record is that we ...
PARAMARIBO RE-VISITED
A mere 7 hours after I left Cayenne(compared to the 12 hours going in the other direction), I was back in familiar Parimaribo. I used my early arrival to begin to check out with a travel agent the next part of my journey eg Curacao, Trinidad, or ...
Paramaribo to Georgetown
... "bus" it meant a bus! Suriname is an ex-Dutch colony - well they were the last ones there before independence anyway. Suriname used to refer to a bigger area (see below). We Brits used to call it Dutch Guiana in colonial times. As ...
Finally on SA soil
... pres then maybe you shouldn't be such an ass that so many people want to kill you. Found out the largest anaconda ever found in Suriname was just caught, 11 meters. That's 35 feet kiddies. I forgot the cable to my camera so I won't be able to download ...
PARAMARIBO PONDERINGS
... ; Often interested in the present day culture of the country I am visiting. Suriname has a mixed population of 500,000 people in an area the size of the state of Georgia. Their clock is 2 hours ahead ...
Jungle Escape with the Kids
We piled into a short bus at a bright and early 7:30AM after a quick packing of our gear and provisions. The road to Pokigron is newly paved now for about half of it so it made for smooth driving. After two hours we came to the end of the pavement and ...
A Dutch feel (but they still drive on the left!)
Well... Up at 4:00am to get a minibus to the ferry to Suriname (There is only 1 a day and it leaves at 10am) Finally got to Paramaribo at about 4ish and checked into this lovely guest house (I even had Air con in the room!!!!!) The Manager was a nice ...
In the middle of the ocean
So were in the middle of the ocean going around the tip of venezuela heading for Brazil. I realized today that living on a ship with your teachers is a strange concept. This morning we were swimming in the pool with my teacher and his three kids. All the ...
HELLO SURINAME....HOW'S MY DUTCH??
Had a pleasant uneventful 1 hour and 20 minute flight to the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo. Got myself a basic room at the above mentioned guest house and checked out the neighbourhood. Check supermarket with beer. Check working ...
Parramatta to Paramaribo
... So that's Parramatta (the city centre of which appears in that photo). Paramaribo on the other hand is much smaller than Parramatta, both in terms of population and of area. However it is a capital city. The capital of the obscure country of Suriname. ...
Now we are in Surname
Kust a quick hop from Georgetown to Paramaribo at FL130 today to almost complete the southern journey before we head North. One more leg to French Guyana and we head for the tropical waters north of us. Perhaps a jump into Cayenne? I hear that town is ...
I am in Europe!!!!
Yep.... I'm in France now. License plates are French, They use Euros, They have nice fresh bread and good cheese!!!!!!!! Still bloody hot though!! ...
GOING DUTCH-- Awarradam Jungle Lodge Experience
... to view a starlit sky in the darkness of a rainforest setting, is not to be missed! The Maroons of Suriname are descendants of the plantation owners' escaped slaves who fled into the rainforest to get away from their tyranny and ...
SURPRISE DECISION???
"To Havana or not to Havana" that is the question. So I chatted with Flo(w) since I always "go with the flow". Her answer was, "Home is where your heart(Patricia, family and friends) is .....therefore I booked a flight with Caribbean ...
Suriname
Suriname was quite a change compared to Guyana. The biggest difference being that Guyana is a former British colony and Suriname is a former Dutch colony. The area of Paramaribo, the capital, where I was staying was filled with white Dutch tourists ...
Cycle to Katwijk
Sunday morning I had to wait until midday for the rain to stop, and then cycled through the dunes to Katwijk which is where the "Old Rhine" enters the North Sea. Brief Geography lesson. You probably thought, like me, that the majestic Rhine, artery ...
Something different
We arrived in Paramaribo late afternoon after crossing the border by ferry and jumping into a small van bound for Paramaribo which took 4hours. We were tired as we had been up since 3:30am driving from Georgetown to the border, where we waited for 3hours ...
Danpaati River Lodge
"Bij ons kunt u zichzelf onderdompelen in de ongerepte schoonheid van de wilde natuur, van alles leren over een andere cultuur of gewoon luieren in één van onze hangmatten aan de schitterende Boven-Surinamerivier... terwijl u hiermee tegelijk een ...